26Approved name and quantity, proportion or strength

26  Approved name and quantity, proportion or strength

 (1) The approved name of the poison and a statement of the quantity, proportion or strength of the poison in accordance with section 34 must be:

 (a) if the poison is for human therapeutic use—written on the main label in accordance with the standards for the goods specified in orders made under subsection 10(1) of the Act; or

 (b) if the poison is not for human therapeutic use—written in bold‑face sans serif capital letters on the main label, unless:

 (i) a list of approved names is required; and

 (ii) it is impractical to include the list on the main label; and

 (iii) it is included on another part of the label in accordance with an authorisation given by an appropriate authority.

 (2) If the poison is included in Schedule 5 and is referred to in column 1 of an item of the following table, the appropriate name in column 2 of that item may be used as the approved name.

 

• Appropriate names for poisons
• Item Column 1 Poison Column 2 Appropriate name
• 1 Alkaline salts Alkaline salts
• 2 Amines for use as curing agents for epoxy resins (unless separately specified in the Schedules) Aliphatic amines or aromatic amines
• 3 Epoxy resins, liquid Liquid epoxy resins
• 4 Hydrocarbons, liquid Liquid hydrocarbons
• 5 Quaternary ammonium compounds Quaternary ammonium compound(s)

 (3) If a poison contains a mixture of designated solvents in excess of 25% of the total volume of the poison but the proportion of one or more individual designated solvents in the mixture is equal to or less than 25%, the approved names of those solvents may be expressed as follows:

 (a) where the designated solvent is a liquid hydrocarbon—as “liquid hydrocarbons”;

 (b) where the designated solvent is a ketone—as “ketones”;

 (c) in any other case—as “solvents” or “other solvents”.